Horror game idea

The simple idea of the game is that you are walking through a dark forest with your dog. You are told three things

  • If you die you lose
  • You can press the space button at any time to give up and exit the game.
  • Reach the end to win.

The first time you walk nothing much happens, there might be some ambiance or the occasional sound of a stick being stepped on behind you, but other than that you are just on a walk with your dog. You can see some lights from a town somewhere in the distance.

If you keep playing again after you finish the first walk you might start to hear more sounds, louder and weirder, yet still you are entirely fine if you keep walking. If you keep playing things might start to change, you might find yourself walking with no dog, or without the lights of the town in the distance, or with the occasional figure somewhere off to the side. Eventually you might find yourself walking with a dog, only for a couple minutes later to have no dog with you. You might see people moving in the shadows, or hear the constant sound of footsteps behind you. Still nothing happens to you. Eventually you might find yourself running from a decently prominent figure, but if you stop running the figure just disappears. You can play hundreds of times yet there will be no jumpscares or death.

The only catch is that if you exit the game via the space bar, the hidden counter will reset and the next time you play it will just start over as normal, walking with your dog as if none of the wacky hallucinations ever happened

doesn’t really seem like a game but perhaps.

Reminds me of that mirror game, doing something normal but you have insanity tier 5

I like this idea, but I think it’s a bit more complicated than what it needs to be. This is all the game needs:

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